SOOOOO CLOSE MAN.
In Memoriam: Itaru Ishida : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering
Itaru Ishida, one of Japan’s most well-known players of Magic: The Gathering, passed away on January 13 at the age of thirty-three. Followers of social media have likely seen the comments of shock and lament from players around the world, as well as from personages connected with the game, regarding Ishida’s sudden death. Here, I would like to take a moment to look back at the career of this remarkable player.
Born in 1979, Itaru Ishida was in his teens when Magic first appeared. Already possessed of a gamer’s temperament before he encountered trading card games, Ishida was quickly entranced by the genre and began to play regularly with his friends, who would end up sharing his lifelong commitment to the game. Ishida fast became a fixture in the domestic tournament scene, and soon established his reputation as the “Strongest High Schooler” in Japan by traveling abroad multiple times to play in the highest level of competition Magic has to offer, the Pro Tour. Eventually signing a sponsorship contract with the card shop Future Bee, Ishida became Japan’s first true professional card-game player. Ishida was one of the pioneers of Magic in Japan, but he was never one to rest on his laurels. In his thirty-three years, he accumulated a series of achievements that people twice his age would have trouble boasting of: seventeen Grand Prix Top 8s, including two wins; a 2nd-place finish at a Pro Tour; two 2nd-place finishes in the Masters Series; and thirteen consecutive appearances in the Japan National Championship, a record that still stands as of this writing…
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Today’s spoilers! What do you think?
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The Illustrative Work of Terese Nielsen for Wizards of the Coast’s Magic the Gathering
Terese Nielsen, born in Aurora, Nebraska, 1966, is a California-based freelance fantasy artist.
Nielsen has gained a fan following mainly because of her illustrations for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. Nielsen has produced art for both Magic and Wizards of the Coast’s other products since 1996, in addition to her work as an illustrator of book covers & interiors and movie posters. She has served as a juror for the Spectrum Awards.
Nielsen grew up in Nebraska and graduated from the Art Center College of Design in April 1991. Her brother is another long-time Magic: The Gathering artist, Ron Spencer. Terese Nielsen is the ex-wife of Cliff Nielsen, with whom she illustrated the Marvel comic book Ruins.
Here are all of the “Illustration Master Class” versions of War Priest of Thune together. I hope these artists get hired to do some Magic art in the future.
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I found this on Reddit and thought you guys would find it funny!! It’s the Planeswalkers’ letters to Santa!
Here’s a link to the website!
Enjoy!
<3 VedalkenGhurl
>undo bannings
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The Library of Alexandria, another card that will be featured in Magic Online’s cube format!
As a blue player, having all the answers in hand -
but not knowing the best way to play them out with a limited mana pool.
The Simic Combine is Ravnica’s steward of nature and the wild; its mission is to preserve the natural world even as Ravnica’s cities continue to grow. The guild seeks to protect the elements of the plane that are incompatible or mutually exclusive with its overpopulated, urban conditions. This is not easy, of course, because the forces of civilization are so prevalent on Ravnica that they threaten to subsume anything that runs counter to them. But the Simic practice a strange combination of detachment and holism that provide a kind of separation from the larger urban systems—a separation on which their conservation mission depends.
The Orzhov guild was founded on the belief that wealth is power, that structure breeds wealth, and that guilt creates structure. The guild is run like a combination religion, credit-lending agency, and crime syndicate, with an ostentatious hierarchy of priests, enforcers, and ghostly councilors ruling over a congregation of guiltbound servants, indebted ghosts, and thrulls. Many Orzhov guild members truly believe that their rule is necessary for making Ravnica the best it can be, and they are unscrupulous in their methods of making sure they seize power. Most Ravnicans see the Orzhov for the corrupt organization they are, but many are lured in by their promises of wealth, prestige, and longevity.
New Year's Resolution
- Me: I need to save money.
- Gatecrash: lol, no.
- Dragon's Maze: We'll see how that turns out.
Magic: The Gathering - Innistrad. Gatstaf Shepherd/Gatstaf Howler by Mark Evans.
“What is worse thant a wolf in sheep’s clothing?” —Wolfhunter’s riddle
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